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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of… — Henrik Ibsen
This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to… — George Matthew Adams
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we… — Bertrand Russell
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable… — Benjamin Franklin
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North… — Samuel Eliot Morison
How is error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and… — Edsger Dijkstra
The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible]. — Tom Duff
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The… — Jim Horning
We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression,… — Antoine Lavoisier
It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not… — John Bunyan
Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined… — Ida B. Wells
We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those… — Albert Einstein
Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and… — Immanuel Kant
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and,… — Gottfried Leibniz
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it… — Gottfried Leibniz
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and… — Zhuangzi
Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry… — Rajneesh
"The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in.… — Rajneesh
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness. — Sigmund Freud
Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more… — Wilhelm Wundt

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